Lucent Default Router Passwords

Lucent Technologies was spun out of AT&T in 1996 and merged with Alcatel ten years later. The Lucent records here run across the PSAX- line.

Point a browser at whatever your computer reports as its default gateway. On Windows that is the Default Gateway line from ipconfig; on macOS, Network settings shows it under the active connection.

(any 3 characters) is the username on 2 of the 37 entries. 4 of them ask for no username at all. One model shipped with no password at all.

Where one is set, cascade comes up most often, on 6 entries. There are 31 different passwords across the Lucent set, so check your exact model rather than assuming. 3 of them are reached over a protocol that puts the password on the wire in clear text, so work from a machine on the same wired network rather than across the internet, and change the password once you are in.

There is a recessed reset button on the back or underneath that needs a straightened paperclip. Hold it in for thirty seconds with the unit powered on. Let go when the lights change pattern, and give it a couple of minutes to come back up.

A reset clears more than the password. The Wi-Fi name and key go back to what is printed on the label, port forwards and firewall rules are discarded, and any static addressing is lost. Photograph the settings pages first — it takes two minutes and saves an evening.